suspicious - Story 145432 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He watched the cooking show with narrowed eyes. The celebrity chef, known for his "Volcano Burgers," was demonstrating the technique. It was a near copy of what he'd used in his food truck for years. The way he folded the patties, the secret blend of spices... All of it.

A knot formed in his throat as the chef enthusiastically described the "revolutionary" method. He slammed the remote against the coffee table. He knew his method was unique.

Later, he found himself pulling up the chef's website, replaying the segment over and over. His fingers were tapping a furious rhythm against the desk. He felt a creeping dread. How could someone take his idea and present it as their own?

Emotion: suspicious

Cluster: Suspicion / Vigilance

PC1 (Valence): -0.82 Negative

PC2 (Disposition): 0.82

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion suspicious. During extraction, it was fed through Gemma4-31B and its hidden state activations were captured at 11 layers.

The mean activation across all 1,000 suspicious stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the suspicious emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the suspicious vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:

`🤔`	0.420
`🤔`	0.415
`🧐`	0.362
`疑`	0.352
`suspicious`	0.352

Suppressed:

`and`	-0.307
`alleviate`	-0.301
`ได้รับการ`	-0.298
`allevi`	-0.285
`mouthful`	-0.284